How Is Moscow Responding to Losses?

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00:00Ukraine reports Russia has lost over a million troops since the start of the invasion.

00:06What is Moscow's response to that?

00:09Well, there's been no official response from the Russian side to those claims.

00:13And actually, the last time that the Russian authorities have revealed the number of the Russian irreversible losses

00:19in the so-called special military operation in Ukraine was in September 2022, almost three years ago.

00:26Back then, the Russian president said that number was about 6,000 Russian soldiers.

00:32And exactly a year ago, the Russian president has said that the ratio of the Russian irreversible losses

00:39and Ukrainian irreversible losses is one to five.

00:42So that the assumption in Moscow is that Ukraine is losing five times more soldiers than Russia.

00:49And the understanding in Moscow is that Russia is helping the sanitary losses of the Russian military

00:58by supplying them with all the necessary medical help afterwards.

01:02And now we are actually hearing more and more about that.

01:05But also interesting numbers that have been quoted by the Russian media outlets

01:09that were saying that there was the UN Human Rights Commissioner's report,

01:14which was suggesting that the Ukrainian military have executed at least 26 Russian military

01:19who have been in prison in Ukraine ever since February 2022.

01:25So it is unclear what number Russia has lost in its special military operation in Ukraine.

01:31But the Russian authorities are trying to make it clear to the Russian population

01:35that those are much smaller and those are needed because of the goals of that operation

01:42that Moscow is leading in Ukraine.

01:44All right.